page_title: LHB prototype carriages
section_title: Reuse for intercity push-pull trains
hierarchical_section_title: LHB prototype carriages / Reuse for intercity push-pull trains
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Steuerwagen der Bauart Azf 209 am 06.05.1998 um 1:10 Uhr in Frankfurt (Main) Hbf am Schluß des IC 922 nach Düsseldorf Flughafen (ähnlich wie x-Wagen)
context_page_description: The Linke-Hofmann-Busch local traffic prototype coaches were a group of passenger carriages of the Deutsche Bundesbahn.
context_section_description: In 1988, the first part of the Hanover-Würzburg high-speed line was opened to traffic, which meant a large-scale reoganisation of the InterCity network in Germany. Under the new system, Wiesbaden, the state capital of Hesse, would no longer see any InterCity services. The state government considered it inadequate to only connect the city by local trains and S-Bahn services, however, and asserted a shuttle service between Wiesbaden, Frankfurt and Mainz. DB considered the LHB prototypes and modified a number of them into InterCity carriages so that two push-pull trains became available. The two driving trailers Bnrzf⁷³² retained their open coach seating and were rebuilt into 1st class carriages Azf²⁰⁹. Five coaches were rebuilt into Bz²⁹⁸ from the four Bnrz⁷²⁶ and the Bnrz⁷²⁷ and were equipped with the interior of the Bpmz coaches originally built for the IC '79 system.
  These were the first push-pull long-distance trains on the DB network, as the first regular long-distance driving trailers were only introduced in 1995 with the Interregio driving van trailer Bimdzf²⁶⁹. The two push-pull trains, dubbed "Wiesbaden-City", were first used on the line between Wiesbaden Hbf and Mainz Hbf on a regular timetable. Several years later, trains between Wiesbaden Hbf and Frankfurt (Main) Hbf were also run with the two consists. Especially for these trains, several Class 141 engines were repainted to the red colour scheme current in the early 1990s. Da die umgebauten Wagen erst verspätet fertiggestellt wurden, kamen anfangs Ersatzgarnituren aus normalen Intercity-Wagen mit je einer Lok an beiden Zugenden zum Einsatz. Ein Zustand, der auch später immer wieder auftreten sollte, denn durch ihren Prototypen-Status galten sie zeitlebens als Splittergattung, die Ersatzteilhaltung wurde zuletzt zunehmend schwierig; es war nicht immer möglich, die Wagen immer ausreichend verfügbar zu halten. Often, services also were run with a mixture of retrofit and non-retrofit carriages or even ordinary passenger stock like n carriages. The driving trailers could not be used as such in the later years and were often treated as normal carriages.
  In the 1990s, in addition to the scheduled Wiesbaden-City runs, the carriages also were used for nighttime airport shuttle trains from and to Karlsruhe and Düsseldorf Airport together with DB Class 111 locomotives.
  In the latter part of the decade, only the nightly InterCity service Frankfurt (Main) Hbf <-> Düsseldorf Flughafen was operated with the carriages, and they were finally decommissioned by late May 1998.
caption: Push-pull train IC 922 toward Düsseldorf Flughafen consisting of rebuilt LHB cars in Frankfurt (Main) Hbf
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